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Can Ron Paul Win?

He already has. When Ron Paul started out in January he was
hoping to get his ideas out there by running for President. He
announced in March, and the Ron Paul R3VOLution was already under way
and spreading in pockets throughout the nation. An obscure
10-term Republican Congressman from Texas, who had "no chance" of
winning the nomination. Small dedicated groups of people were
already self organizing and spreading the word through the
Internet. Had you forced me to burst your bubble in May of this year,
I would have told you in my opinion Ron Paul had absolutely zero chance
of winning the GOP nomination. The entire system is carefully designed
to prevent people like Dr. Paul from gaining attention, much less
getting the actual nomination.
In the second
Republican Presidential Debate, front runner Rudy Giuliani did
"third tier" candidate Paul an enormous favor by personally attacking
the Congressman on his non-foreign interventionism and anti-Iraq war
stance. Paul was instantly elevated to "first-tier" attention
status by surviving the exchange. Thank you Rudy! Paul came
away with a lot of positive attention. His exchange stole the
show. The mainstream media spinmeisters and talking pointy heads, being too stupid to recognize who
came away the victor of the exchange (The post debate mob of reporters
and cameras around the Paul table to the complete abandonment of all
the other
candidates should have been a clue.) proceeded to show and discuss the
exchange over and over to "help" promote Rudy. It gave Ron Paul
positive exposure instead, and Paul's support grew. Youtube and the
Internet magnified this exponentially.

At that debate (held in South Carolina) were a few GOP big wigs from
nearby states. They were none to pleased to hear what Ron Paul
had to say, and since they had Presidential activities scheduled in
their states they were going to make sure Ron Paul was history by the
time their events came up. They made the mistake of trying to exclude
Ron Paul out of their and any other events. This resulted in
energizing the
R3VOLution. It was the best thing that could happen. Being
ignored is devastating. Being overtly snubbed by arrogant pricks, well
that is just
sweet!

The R3VOLution is composed of a wide variety of people. It
started out with people of mainly libertarian influence who knew each
other. But rapidly people who knew of Paul, either from Aaron
Russo's "America: From Freedom to Fascism" to disenfranchised
Republicans and Democrats who witnessed the complete abandonment of of
fiscal responsibility, or anti-war claims respectively by their Parties,
of those who abandoned the two major parties long ago to form third
parties such as the Constitution Party or Green Party, who call
themselves Independents, Patriots or Progressives, or who reject the explanations of the
events leading up to 9/11. And a few anarchists too.
;-)

A quick check of "Who Is Ron Paul?" leads to a biography that is quite
attractive. A Christian man who became a physician delivering babies,
served his nation as an Air Force Flight Surgeon during the Vietnam War,
who is married to the same woman for 50 years, and a grandfather of a
rather large family. A ten term Republican Congressman from Texas whose voting record
displayed that he backed up his promises with identical actions and as a
result of those actions had enraged the Party machine who nicknamed him
"Dr. No" for his voting against their pork barrel, civil rights
diminishing, government growing legislation. They had
unsuccessfully tried to get him kicked out of office on several
occasions and now just ignore him. "The Ron Paul Rule." He
was one of four sitting Congressmen to support Ronald Reagan in Reagan's 1976
run at the Presidential nomination, in which GOP Party dirty tricks
knocked Reagan aside for a damaged Jerry Ford.

Yup, Ron Paul knows what to expect, and has already been through the
fire and survived. Even worse for his opponents, Dr. Paul is
honest, clean (believe me the GOP looked), and just a good man.
They can't rattle him. And he does not respond to attacks by
attacking back, which diminishes his attackers. People like him. His
colleagues like him. He is a thoughtful, unpresumptuous man who will
listen to what you have to say, and let you know if he disagrees with
you. Over time bad behavior and bad deeds will prove the undoing of
some of the front runners.

The R3VOLution responded to Ron Paul's snub by self mobilizing local
activists in the affected areas, getting signs, materials and people
traveling to those locations to create a scene that the national media
can hardly ignore as they converged onto the location. The
R3VOLution WILL NOT BE IGNORED! And this has led to the discomfort
of local officials, Republican faithful and the press. Good.
We aren't polite. And we care not for your sensibilities as you
have shown you care not for ours. Your pain is our gain.

Ron Paul will not be denied. He will not be quieted. The
establishment will be abandoned and bypassed if they don't want to
share their toys.

What has been the result? In Michigan, an e-mail, phone calling
campaign created by one guy or gal doing a little Googling, calling and
then posting an e-mail, that progressively gets passed onto a ever
widening group located throughout the planet urging you to write,
e-mail and call those responsible for the snub, those sponsoring the
events that snubbed, those...well, you get the picture. The r3VOLution is exponential. Change
your policy or face the consequences of the R3VOLution. Michigan
wisely backed off. Not without a lot of sour grapes...well tough
cookies. Count your lucky stars. You chose to be first, and
if you didn't back down you had to be publicly made to pay a price so
high nobody would not understand the cost of future snubs.
Revolutions are rarely gentle. Lucky for you ours still has some 3VOL left in
it.

Then came Iowa. There two recalcitrant groups excluded only one candidate,
Ron Paul, who ostensibly was the poster boy for the two groups avowed
issues: limited taxes with free markets and Christian values. They did not back down. Well,
the self organizing R3VOLution was loud and rude. The campaign cleverly rented an
adjacent room where the event was scheduled and Ron Paul showed up at
the end of the event he had been excluded from. His numbers of
attendees outnumbered the other meeting two to one. And the
R3VOLution the entire day was LOUD, refusing to be ignored.

Then came a local Republican group in South Carolina, who had snubbed Ron Paul, reversed course,
figured to show Ron Paul for the few kooks campaign it was by inviting
him to a rented room, instead attracted an overflow crowd and made $5,000 in pure profit, and a new respect for Ron
Paul's R3VOLution. By god, local GOP's can make money off of this
guy's popularity! They eagerly invited him back.

Next the R3VOLution started dogging other candidates. Where the
cameras went, the R3VOLution was there. No top tier candidate was
immune from having more Ron Paul supporters show up at their events than
their own supporters. The news media tried to cut the R3VOLution out,
ignored them, referred to them disparagingly for daring to interrupt a
carefully choreographed media extravaganza. Did I mention loud Ron Paul supporters. When the real story
was the story the media was ignoring. It didn't matter.
Because anybody with a video camera could post the real event on Youtube
within a few hours of it happening. Heck, it can even be broadcast live so tapes cannot be stolen. And when the Youtube video
footage is compared with what the local or national talking heads had
to say or write their credibility was shrinking fast.

So the mainstream media starts thinking about removing candidates from the debate.
After all, there has been plenty of time for the small fry to get their
15 minutes of fame. Now all the attention must be focused upon
the anointed ones. The real candidates, not the pretenders to the throne. Unfortunately there are no clear front runners
in the GOP race. They got rid of Gilmore, Tommy Thompson and
Brownback. Fred Thompson only showed up to an enthusiastic 'thank
god for Fred' week where the candidate promptly went back to sleep while
the ever slavering eager media expecting a couple of weeks of easy "stories"
was left to wonder where the heck is Fred? At this time McCain's
campaign was in free fall. Rumors were rife his campaign was out
of money and would fold. He recovered. Fred did not.
Fred never did wake up. By the time Fred stirred and decided to
put in some brief appearances the media's attention, like Fred's, had
moved on. Fred was no longer a story, but he still has his supporters.

Now here is where our story comes near the end. Ron Paul has had
some success getting his free market, non-foreign intervention, sound
money and restore civil liberties ideas out there. He continues
to attract a wide variety of people to his campaign, and others come to
the R3VOLution for many reasons. Most would admit they disagree
with Paul on some of his ideas. [I myself strongly disagree with Paul
on two of his stances, and a couple of others to a lesser extent.] But
they support him on some of his ideas that matter most to them. He is seen as the only one
in a position to carry out those
ideas. And from his voting record he can be taken at his word. It
might be the war. It might be the debt, taxes and spending. It
might be our Rights. They may have tired of all the lies and evil.
Whatever the reason, Paul has succeeded in
gathering the remnant.

But even though he may end up with 15 to 20% of the vote, it would not
be enough to give him the nomination. While the top four
candidates, Rudy, Mitt, John and Fred carve up the votes reasonably
evenly, a four way split of 85% still means Paul loses. The other
candidates support is meaninglessly small...with one exception.
Fred Thompson only exists because none of the other three are very
attractive to the GOP base. The initial excitement of Fred has past and he is
drawing his %15 of support, but he hasn't taken off the way the back room
brokers hoped. The other three remain in that ever shifting, under 20% range in most polls.

Enter Mike Huckabee. He has emerged as the
dark horse candidate . The desperate evangelical wing of the
Christian right, already appalled at who some of their "leaders" are casting
their lot behind -- Satan's neoconservative spawn from Hell Rudy, or Mormon Mitt (their slogan, not mine) -- have
at least for now thrown in their support behind former preacher Huckabee and his poll
numbers have been shooting up, and carving into the other top tier candidates' totals. But not
Paul's supporters, by the way.

I suspect Paul supporters will fade away from
the GOP if their candidate fails to gain their state's
nomination. They are not people to suffer the typical GOP "leadership" sleaze
lightly. This campaign is about the man and his ideas. Once
the man is silenced there is little need to stick around, and great need
of planning the next event: The r3VOLt.

No Huckabee has been
eating into the support of Rudy, Mitt, John and Fred.
Big time. The result is that Ron Paul is neck and neck with all
five candidates. All five will now have to start attacking each
other...oh, I should have put that in the present tense. It will
become an even better, more nasty show, and there is sooooooo much dirt
on all of them except perhaps Fred who all they seem to come up with is
that he enjoys a good sex life and is perhaps less energetic than a
candidate ought. Ron stays above the fray, looking well Ron, and
Presidential.

There may be another plus for Ron Paul. The war is not going well.
Our economy is now nearing its end. There are not many liberties left
to take away. As the war deteriorates, as the economy fails, as our
freedoms
are lost, there is only one man who has overtly been there from the
start the voters can turn to if there is
time. That time is now two weeks away and will be over except for a
handful of states in three months. The sad truth is there may not be
enough time.

Ron Paul MUST win at least one delegate to carry his campaign onto the
Republican National Convention in September. If all five of the front
runners are still in the race there will be a
brokered convention. Meaning that the nominee will not be selected in
the first round of convention balloting. All delegates will then be
released from their pledged candidate and free to vote for whomever
they wish.

The GOP convention takes place a week after the Democratic convention
so their nominee will already be known although that person will
probably be obvious by the middle of March. It becomes our task to
convince the GOP delegates that IF their goal is to defeat the
Democratic nominee, the ONLY candidate who can accomplish that task is
Ron Paul. At present I am saying Ron Paul has a fair chance -- not a
good chance -- of winning the nomination. But he is the ONLY chance of
beating the Democratic nominee.

He has already shown he can attract a base from all over the ENTIRE
political spectrum. An active base. He is squeaky clean. He has a
real job. He has avoided government handouts and perks. He is an
accomplished author of economic, foreign policy and liberty books. He is experienced,
active, articulate and responsive to questioning and comes across as
sincere and honest in his opinions.

He is the anti-war
candidate. Whomever the Democratic nominee is will have a pro-war
voting record.

Their nominee will merely promise even bigger
government spending programs and taxes to save the economy. Ron Paul is acknowledged to be well versed in understanding economics.

Ron Paul is the pro-civil
Rights candidate. Whomever the Democratic nominee is they will have a
voting record of tyranny.

Ron Paul promises to end the endless gun
toting access of major corporations to your wallet. He promises to
reduce both the size of the federal government drastically, and the
federal government's power.

For this reason, the GOP power brokers
will do everything they can, should Ron Paul get the nomination, to
endorse and support the Democratic nominee. Now that would be fun! Viva la R3VOLution!

As a aside, tomorrow marks the Boston Tea Party. Please consider giving $100 to the Ron Paul campaign
on that day. While I am unimpressed with what the campaign has done
with the donated money so far, a huge turnout like November 5th, can
result in very major Ron Paul R3VOLutionary kudos from the media. And
that is A LOT of free R3VOLutionary publicity that definitely helps
get Ron Paul's ideas out there. It also makes it harder for the media
or GOP to dismiss Dr. Paul.

For a somewhat different take on Ron Paul's electability, and some good points click here.

And a couple of authors whose opinions I disagree with, but are worth considering here and here.

Dear Powell,
Maybe we can take advantage of the article by **QQ**Daniel Estulin**QQ** on the **QQ**Pondering**QQ** of weather they should assassinate **QQ**Ron Paul**QQ**,or not.
If Daniel knows about these back room plans,our President ,the **QQ**cia,**QQ**fbi**QQ**,**QQ**secrete service**QQ** and others should also know of these plans.IF not! what the hell good are they?
We could kill two lame birds with one stone.We could point out the unwillingness of bush to look into this matter,we will ask why not.We can put bush in a very bad place by telling Americans that if he is not willing to prevent such an assassination,he must be in on the planing,or at least agreeing with said plans,and point out that if the,e.g.,(secrete service,cia) are not aware of the plans,how stupid,and,or,corrupt are they?
I`m not that good with words.I hope you can see how I think it will help America,and **QQ**Ron Paul**QQ** by making bringing these assassination plans to light,if an attempt is made,the blood will be on G W`s hands for doing nothing to stop it.